The deregulation of civil aviation in the United States has led to customers being offered a wider choice of flights at lower fares, whereas deregulation within the european Community is still a distant prospect. Chris Redston examines the proposals of the European Commission for liberalization...

Whereas the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 put an end to airline subsidization in the USA, things look quite different in the European Union: after more than a decade of discussions about liberalization and the advent of the single market, most European routes are still monopolies or duopolies...

After the shipping industry it is now the turn of international civil aviation to be increasingly drawn into the North-South conflicts and controversies. The developing countries stated clearly at several conferences in the past year that they consider themselves internationally disadvantaged in...